2021 Red Burgundy Part 1 – The Côte de Beaune
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: (Here) The Côte de Beaune – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: The Côte de Nuits – December 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: Beaujolais – February 2022 Clos des Cortons – Faiveley – 6 weeks after the frost What about the 2021 reds… Read More
a few bottles, mainly from last week…
Just a few wines that were drunk before last weekend – the weekend wines will follow – but what can I remember? 😉 2016 Raphaël Chopin, Beaujolais Lantignie La Savoye Full coloured – and… Read More
tart > devauges < lambrays
Well, that didn’t take long, did it(?) I alluded to it yesterday, and the same evening, LVMH (via Reuters) and La Revue du Vin de France, chose to make it official within 10 minutes of each-other: Jacques Devauges has left the Clos… Read More
2017 Red Burgundy Report
Quite frankly, 2017 is the most complex, the most variable, red wine vintage that I’ve ever tasted.* I believe that this is largely down to the volumes – i.e. the yields – at harvest time. Some volumes were ridiculously high, others merely high, whilst the best producers –… Read More
The 2018 Burgundy Vintage – what we know in 2018 – and a few pointers…
Grand Cru Chablis – harvested later that day. This was my 15th consecutive harvest in Burgundy – triaging the grapes of multiple villages. I believe that this, together with questioning the winemakers, is the best balance of first-hand and third-party input required to comment on the vintage. Read More
home harvest day -1
Back to Beaune, and it’s a lot warmer here than it was in Bern! There has been a little rain in both the Côte d’Or and Chablis over the weekend, which will help with grape maturity. Over the weekend, and today, there were more producers jumping into the vines… Read More
Clos des Lambrays – 2017
Tasted in Morey St.Denis with Boris Champy at the end of July 2018. Société du Domaine des Lambrays 31, rue Basse 21220 Morey-Saint-Denis Tel: +33 3 80 51 84 33 www.lambrays.com Boris on 2017: “2017 wasn’t as big a harvest as in 2016… Read More
a little sunday afternoon chassagne…
A stroll around the village of Chassagne this afternoon – like most of the Côte d’Or, and despite the nice picture I shared of veraision in Corton on 9 July – veraison is still on a low level in both the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. In… Read More
Clos des Lambrays – 2016
Tasted in Morey St.Denis with Boris Champy and Thierry Brouin, 13 November 2017. Société du Domaine des Lambrays 31, rue Basse 21220 Morey-Saint-Denis Tel: +33 3 80 51 84 33 www.lambrays.com Thierry and Boris on 2017: “We are really happy with out 2017… Read More